w*j,~jt swv^ jsis »s?vg«.- JEL 9iSff -5«^«t —l-**m»dSt. iBSBfc/.*£iShtesf TALMAGE'S SEftMOlfc with broken heart, and efieeks Ted not witi, His own hand! Tlwy offered Him an intoxicating TRIOLETS. an before. "They are In want of wrapping Freddy in soft flannels and draught made out of wine and mvrrh. health, but with blood from the temples. I workmen on the new city hall. I'll administering a quieting potion. She but BSJ declined it* He wanted to die sober. take hold or His ccat and I say: **It does#,ii take my hammer—it will g:Ye us had been watching the movements of No water. The Brooklyn Preacher Discourses on not seem to fit Thee." -ISo?' Hesays he should a8k a little kiss, bread." the people ever since they came to live Then, my friends, there was the absence is not mine it is borrowed it does not be tfOhi,shoulddaskeaBn I should O chary the Divine Assassination and She ought to have been contented— of light. Darkness alwavs exaspsrates trouble. long lb Me now. For 'My Testure did Ifoey in the house. ^or woul wsike such sweofc blis? Its Lesson. Inevershall forget the night the cast lots." Ana I say to Him: "Titfne, he little kisf«, ought to have thought with pride of "My baby will get well, won't he?" snmmer of 1873, in the steamer Greece, luidAtlantic, (Steep.7* eyes are red as though from loss of at I should never wish to miss the man who wrould thus brave the was .said pleadingly, and the poor everyjnomentexpecting^he aSeamer He says: "Yes, the feon of man had not The blush preliminary,— sp^agHftsJt Picture a Cross Flamin with. world's opinion. He went out in the thing sobbed again as if her heart to go down. All the lights the cabin where to lay His head.* And I touch the I J3 he should ask a little is W S I SnJFerins, Flaming witiCTriumph, early morning and came home late at wero blown out. The captain cam*- crawling would break. logon His back and I sav: *'Whv earriest Ufa Oh, I should be so chary! ^P'fW^, Flamin with Glory. on his hands and Knees, for he could not Thou this?" "Ah!" He says, **that is a night, his handsome face glowing with "Yes, indeed." stand upright, so violently was the vessel cross I cany for thee and for the sins of the love. But the very thought at her he should dare to squeeze my hanu*,^ '-'And you will stay with me through pitching, and he cried out: Light .up, licht whole wond. Tnat is a cress. FaH into Or touch uiy little unger, •'-,*- husband was brought aown to the Bev. T. De Witt Tannage, D. D., took the night?" forgetting at she was up!" The steward said: "We can't light line, inarch on with me in this procession, ^'T !No blush on picket could withstand, Jf level of a common laborer hurt her. for his text the passage: up the candl* are gone and the holders one of "those people." take your smaller crosses and your lighter I *If he should dare to squeeze my hand, are gone." The capratn sa'd: *1 can't Sister Belle had said at her tastes Whosoever doth not bear His cross and burdens and join me in tms march to "I'd stay with you a whole blessed The chance to warn my heart unmanned help tuat light*up!" The storm was awful heaven." Anu we join that procession with were luxurious, and she "wanted a week," replied true-hearted Mrs. Wilson, come after me can not be my disciple. Luke By blood that fain would linger,— when the lights were burning, worse when Eersely ourjsmaller crosses and oar lighter burdens, rett home now and fine apparel for II he should dare to kiss my hand. "if I could make you worthy of xiv.,4-27. $ the lights went out, and Chr st looks back and Hs sees some are #_jf Or touch my little finger. and baby. The people of the your husband." He preached the following sermon: halting because they can not endure the Then there was the absence of faithful world which she had lived had never "Tell me what I shall do and I'll do nurses. When you are ill it is pleasant to shame or bear the burden, and with a voice The cross was a gibbet on which criminals If he should ever come to woo, to count their money to know if they have the head bathed and the hands and which has in it majesty and omnipotence, it willingly and without complaining." were put to death. It was sometimes made And should to wed beseech me, S ieet rubbed. Look at the hands and feet of He cries until all the earth trembles: "Whosoever could buy a new dress. She had never All through the long night, while "What should-a happy maiden do, -a* in the shape cf the letter T, sometimes in Christ! Look at the face of Christ There doth not bear his cross and come.after had to make the best of circumstances, Freddy lay between life and death, If he should ever tome to woo, the shape of the letter X, sometimes in th.3 were women there who had cared for the me tan not be My disciple." and why should she now? And breathe his vows with great ado?*"^ Mrs. Wilson worked over him bravely sick, but none of them misrht come up near Oh, my brethren, my sistere—for I do not shape of the letter I—a simple upright O darling Cupid teach me' *.. The little privations she endured worried enough to help. There was Christ's mother, and told the girl-mother chapters in speak professionally I speak as a brother sometimes two cross pieces against the perpendicular If he should ever come to woo, but she might not come up near enough to her, and in a little while the sweettempered -would speak to a brother or sister—my her own life experiences. There were And should to wed beseech me! bar, so that upon the lower cross help. Thev said: "Stand back! stand brother, can you not bear across if at last woman became moody and passages over which Stella wept bitterly, —Earl Marble in the Current. back I This is no place for you." The high you can wear a crown? Come now, let us piece the criminal partially sat. But whatever down-hearted. \$%jj? 4.^ -itf and when morning dawned, priests and the soldiers wanted it their own divide off. Who is on the Loru's side? Who 7 style of cross always disgraceful, "Stella is homesick," the husband giving back the child from danger, in way they had it their own way. is ready to turn his back upon the Lamb of 'S always agonizing. would say "the care of the baby is place of the fickle, unreasonable woman, God, tuat taketh away the sin of the world? The hours pass on, and it is 12 o'clock of When Darius conquered Babylon he put Sav lor's suffering, and it is 1 o'clock, and it A Boman emperor said to a Greek architect: too much for her. I must make some there was one ready to meet is 2 o'clock, and it is almost 3 o'clock. Take "You bund me a coliseum, a grand £g5 two hundred captives to death en the cross. money," and his hammer rang with redoubled life's work with firm purpose and the last look at that sufferins iac-e wan and coliseum of all the people, and I will make 3 "When Alexander conquered Tyre he put energy but Stella continued strong heart. "My choice is made at last, Sister pinched, the puip.e lips diavvn back agamvt a great day of festival on your account." I two thousand captives to death on the cio^." to sulk. She tidied up each apartment, and the teetli, the eyes red with weeping and The Greek architect did his work, did it "?, Belle. Now I am ready for blame or So it was just an ordinary mode of punishment. "How can you expect me to live sunken as though grief had pushed them magnificently, planned the building, looked J^k instead of going about in a dowdywrapper But in all the forest of cics^es on the ^praise from others but I want your approval." back, blackness under the lower lid, the after its construction, 'ihe building was "*y^ among such surroundings?" was her put on a fresh dres3, arranged hills and in the valleys of the earth there .is who.e body adroop and shivering with the done. The day for opening arriv ed. In the -ja^^a? appeal, when hebeg^edherto cheer up. her hair becomingly, and la»t chill, the breath growing feebler, and coliseum were the empero*- and the Greek ^*Cft|jarchitecr. one cross that attracts moie attention than "It is cruel in you, I want to go home changed the pucker about her mouth The elder sister looked at a couple feebler, and feebler, and eblcr until He The empei-or arose amid the| »^l|b any other. It is not lusher than the others, to my own friends." **«tJ for her own rosy lips. gives one long, deep, lastsinh. He is dead! plaudits of avast assembly and said: "We '^j^ o£ open letters lying on the writingdesk it is not made out of different wcod, there is The warm glow came to his face, O, my soul. He is dead! Can vou tell have gathered here to-dry tj op this 4*&Si&V ''You're a pretty little thing," Mrs/ nothing peculiar in the notch at which the before which the sx^eaker sat, her why? Was He a fanatic dying for a principle coliseum and to honor the Gieek architect, ^^glfl,. and he drew her tenderly toward him Wilson told her when she had fastened two pieces are joined, and as to the scene, that He did not amount to anything? It is a great day for the Roman empire. Let fi %-1fjt**, cold gray eyes softening a little as she without a word, but there was a look a knot of blue ribbon her hair. they witnessed crucifixions every few weeks Was He a man iniatuated? No to save this building be piosperous, aud let lienor be 4%ff/ piteous to see in his handsome eyes. "See after baby now. I'll look in replied: so that I see a reckless man walking the your soul from sin, and m.ne, and make put upon the Greek architect. Oh, we must ^Vjft Then came a day a little later when eternal life possible He died. There had to every now and then through the day have a festival to daj\ Biing out those c' *jr hill and kicking carelessly aside a skull, and "If you tell me which of the two you be a substitute lor siu. Who shall it- be? it did seem at matters had come to and tonight I will come back to you. Christians and let us have them put to death wondering who the villain was who had so %ave chosen I can answer you." "Let it be me?" said Christ. "Let it be me." ar the mouth ot the lions." The Christians J2 -"V a crisis. The city hall was finished wrill Your husband be here tomorrow flat and misshapen a head and here is another You undeistand the meaning of that word were put into the center of tLe amphitheater. "You ought to know without being and Clarence must look for something morning." .• *s?|. fH &£ skull, and there en the hillside is substitution. You were diaited for tne last It was be a gieat celebration in new. Jennie, who had been Freddy's 5 told," Stella laughed. "Clarence, oi "Yes," Stella replied, with a bright another skull. Indeed the Bible savs it war, some one took jour place, marched their destruction. Then the lions, hungry your maich, suffered your wounds, and died nurse, had to go, and all the household look in her eyes. yHe'll be here by 10 was "a place of skulls." But about the "victim and thr e-fourth starved, were let out fioai ^course." at Gettysburg. Christ comes to us while cares fell upon Stella. They had on one of these crosses all ages are crying: their «.~ns in the side of the amphitheatre, &M~% o'clock." "K we are fignting our battle wit sin and death Belle Lawson looked serious. and they came forth with mighty spring to 4v moved about a great deal, hoping to '-"Who is He? Was He a man? Was He After all, it was a long time to wait and hell, aud He is our substitute. He destroy and rend the Christians, anu all the "Stella, I am soriy. Not at 1 find a place in which the fretful girl a God?" Was He nuin and God?" she thought. She was so impatient to marches our march, fights our battle, suffers galleries sLouted: "Huzza! Huzza! Long wife would be contented. our wound*, ana dies our death. Substitution! ^foear Clarence Hens haw any ill-will, tell him—and she would kiss him as Through the darkness of that gloomy day live the emperor!" Then the Gieek archi-^ Substitution! "These people are all alike, you many times as he wished. 1 come clo-e up enough to the cross to see tect arose one of the galleries and shouted but, child, von are not fit to be a poor who it is. It is Jesus. How did He come know, and I may as well be in one How do jou feel in regard to that scene until in the vast assemblage all heard him: "Yes, indeed!" she exclaimed, joyfully, •man's wife. Remember you are proud there? Had He come up on the hill to look described in tue text and in tie region "1, too, am a Christian!" aud they seized place as another," was her reply to bending over Freddy's cot, "we'll oft' upon the heautiiul landscape or upon a around aDout the text? Are your sympathies him in their lury and flung him to the wild a have been reared in ease and comfort. Clarence when he suggested at they itr kiss a pa a hundred thousand times, brilliant sunset? No. He came there ill aroused craie you so dead in sin and so beasts, until his body, bleeding and dead, move. Follow my advice and marry won't we dear?" and exhausted. People sometimes ^wonder abandoned by leason of your transgressions was tumbled ov er and over again in the dust why Christ expired so quickly on the cross, It was unwomanly in her to say that you can look upon all that teaness and I do wish Clarence would come," of the amphitheater. .Henry Lakeman. in six or seven houip, while other A ictims unmoved? No, no tnere are thousands of people Could you have done that for Christ? this, she knew, and she thought to she kept saying next morning. W at have been on the cross ior fortv-eight hours here this morning who can say, in the Steila shook her head. Could you, in a vast assemblage, all of whom run after her husband and beg his detains him?" she continued, when the before life was extinct. I will teR you the depths ot ti.eir soul: *No. no, no if Jesus hated Christ, have said: "I am a'Christian,'" "'No, Belle I wouldn't marry Henry forgiveness, but just then Freddy clock was on the stroke of 12. W at reason. He was exhausted when he came endured that and all that for me, I ought to or, want to be a Christian?" there. He had been scourged. We are caught her by the dress, causing her 1 ove Him. I must love Him I vv ul love Him tiakeman ir he was a hundred times if—and her heart lay like lead in her Would you have had the ten thousandth Zjk. horrified at the cruelties of tue whippingpost, I do love Mini. Here, Lord, I give myslf to to spill the water she was pouring bosom as she recalled the look she part of the enthusiasm and the courage of ~Ww richer than he is." but those cruelties were mercv as compared Thee 'tis all mt 1 can do." the Greek architect? Nay, 1 ask you another into the kettle, which only increased last saw on his face—"what if he never witb the scourging of Je»us Christ. She slipped a picture into its envelope question: would you in an assemblage But how are you going to test your love her vexation. comes back," she murmured," going I saw at Antwerp a picture mide hy Bubens—Rubens' where they are nearly all Christians—in an and test your earnestness? My text gives a after a long view. "You cross little thing!" she exclaimed, into her own room. "Mrs. Wilson," picture ot the scourging of assemblage a vast multitude of whom love test. It says that white Chnst carried a impatiently. "Take that! Jesus Christ. It was the most overmastering "'It is a lovely place," she sighed, she called, "where is my husband?" rZ.'?" Christ and are willing to live, and if need cross for you, you must be willing to carry a picture I ever looked at, or ever expect laying her hand heavily on the little In an instant the dear, good soul be to die, for Him—would you dare to say, cro-s for Christ. "Well," you H-XV, "I never ""and I would like to live there." to see. As the long.frocked official opened "I am a Christian," or, want to be a bare shoulders. Then she sat down could understand that. There are no crones was beside her, resting a hand tenderly Th sister was watching, and, stooping, the door that hid the picture there He was— Christian?" Would you say in the presence to be carried in this land: tl.ose persecutions and fell into hysterical weeping. on the aching head. True-hearted Christ with back bent and bared. The flagelator kissed fthe smooth, white brow, ot the friends of Christ, as much as the Greek have issed, and in all tne land there ia no Freddy, with the prints of her fingers woman! She shrank from saying it stood with the upper teeth clinched awhile she said: architect said in the presence of the enemies vt"* one to be crucified, and yet in the pulpit and over the lower lip, as though to give vio. still on his neck, tried to climb into had been a dreadful night on the of Chri-t.'' Oh, are there not multitudes .^ in the prayer-meetings you idI keen talking "Don't be too hasty, Stella. If you lence to the blows. Theie were the swollen her lap, but she pushed him away here this morning who are ready to say: i.. sound, and at a steamer had collided about cairying a cross. "What do ou mean, covet this pretty home of Henry Lakeman's, shoulders of Christ. There were the black "Let the world ICOK on, let all the galleries fof roughly. sir?" I meim this: That is across whicn with the New York boat "Her and blue ridges, denied even the relief of accept it-" earth and heaven and hell look on. I •'*«-& Christ calls jou to do which is unpleasant "Don't do anything you'll be sorry husband traveled by a had been bleeding. There was the &e~,h adhering to "Bu I love Clarence. I prefer a take Christ this dajr. Come applause or aud hard. '-Oh!" you sav, "alter hearing the whips as they were lifted. There were for, Stella," her husband said, coming her conclusion. cottajje with him to a mansion with abuse, coma sickness or health, come lile or ^S-^ tne story of this Chiist and all that He has the marks where the knots the whips into the room just then. Stella caught at her arm, the sound death, Christ now, Christ forever." endured lor me 1 am readv lo do anything Henry." gouged out the flesh. There stood the per. J1® "I thought you'd gone to town," of her voice answering Freddy, and for Him. Just tell me what I have to do and Are you for Christ are vou acainst Him? Miss Lawson turned to the window secutor, with his fcot on the calf of the leg I'll do it. I am ready to cany any cress." The destinies of eternity tiembie in the balance. she replied, sharply. 0 dear! If I •with a cry she fell. Poor, tired, inexperienced of the Savior, balancing himself. Oh, the ••with a sorry look. Some sweet dream It seems as it the last day had come Suppose I should as you at the close of a furious and hellish look on those laces, grinning had taken good advice I would not wife and mother! Wa of her childhood was in her memory, and we were gathered lor the reckoning. religious service to rise up announcing yourself vengeance against the Son ot GoJ. The have married a poor man. the ordeal so ordered? With the help perhaps, but she held it worse than "Behold, He cometh with cloads, and every ^"4 on the Loid's side—could vou do it? "Oh, picture seized me, it o\en\hemed me it "Yon are not yourselt this morning, of a neighbor Mrs. Wilson laid her on eye shall see Him." What I say to cue I ^%*j5' folly to indulge in regrets. Love, in seemed as if it would kill me. I iio not tuink no!" VOL say, "1 have a shrinMug and a say to all. What are you doing for Christ? Stella," and nis eyes were full of unshed the bed. 1 could have looked at it five minutes and sensitive nature, and it would be impossible ber estimation, was no balance in the What are you bearing for Christ? have lived. for me to rise before a largp tears, as he saw the red marks "Run for the doctor," she said to -ecale for wealth. Oh, Christian man! On, Christian woman assemblage, announcing myself on the Lord's on the baby's neck. Miss Williams. "Stella," she continued, very grave- But that, my friends, was before Christ Have you any scars to show in this conflict? side." Just as I feared. You cannot stand "Do you think I can endure everything?" "But you don't know had started for CdUary. That was only the When a war is over the heices have scars to I have acted the part of a mother that cross. Ihe Irst one that is ofivred you, wmpping. Are you ready ior the journey to she cried spitefully. show. One hero rolls back his sleeve and I do, she interrupted. "Mrs. you reject. Christ carried a H.malaya, ior many years my wish has ever been the cross.-' shows a gunshot fracture, or he pulls down "You are nervous and tired, dear. Christ carried a world for vou, aud you canuot Henshaw will have a run of nervous "that you form a wealthy marriage. I I he carpenters have split the timber into the collar and shows wlrere he was wounded lift an ounce lor him. Come here," and he put out his fever and whether her husband is know you love Luxury, you enjoy display, two pieces. They aie heavy and they are in the neck. Another man says: "1 have But lieie is a man whose cross will be to hands to clasp her, but she turned dead or alive, I can't say." long pieces, for one ot them must he fastened and I am not saying too much never had the use of my limb since I was announce among his business associates tomoirovv away from him and left the room. deep down the earth lest cne struggling When Stella opened her ey\»s again when I add at you worship beautiful wounded at that great battle." When the morning on exchange thatne ta? begun of the yietiin upset the structure. Something wet' fell on the baby's it was nearly night. She knew no one last day comes when all our battles aie over, a new life, that, v\ *le he wants to he apparel. Henry Lakeman can They put this timber on the shoulder of will we have any wounds for Christ? Some head, and he pressed him closely to iaithiul in histworldly duties, he is living for about the bed, but talked to Clarence give you all of these. Clarence Henshaw Christ \ery gradually first, to see whether 1 have wounds for sin, wounds toi the devil, another orlc and he ought to advise all ot his bosom as he caught the sound of and Freddy and sister Belle. She was cannot. As his wife you will be He can stuna it, and after they find He can wounds gotten in fighting on the wrong side. his associates, so far as he can influence her sobbing. going to help husband now. She stanJ it, they put the whole weight upon subject to all manner of privations Have we wounds that we can show—wounds them, to begin with the Christ an life. Could Him. Forward, now, to Cnhan. The could earn money by teaching music be obliged to live in a common way, gotten in the battle for Christ and the truth? I have heard of somethingnew this you do that, my brother? ''Oh, no," you say, hooting ana tne veiling mob follow on. On that resurrection day Christ will have or painting, "or might have a fewpupils "not just that. I thmk religion is religion, •-stint and economizo and manage the morning, Stella, and I'm going to Under the weight ot tue cross, Christ being plenty of scars to show. Chiist will stand %5*i and business is business, aud it would be impossible in dancing," she added. "But best you can. How long will that suit New York by the next train." eary and sick, He stumbles and falls, anu there ynd show the scars on his oiow, the lor me to recommend t.ie Christian forgive me for striking and her a girl of your tastes? Think well of it. they jeik at his robe indignant that He "You are always hearing of something scars on His hands, a'ld the scars on His feet, v"V leligion in place, ot worldly business." Ju»t I shall let you have your own choice arms were put up as if to clasp something, should have stumbled and fallen, and they new," was her quick reply "but and He will put aside the robe of His royal. %~J *•_ as 1 leared. Tnere is a second cross offered cry: '-betup, get up!" Christ, putting one ty and show the scar on His side, and all 4 in regard to this marriage." when she dozed again. you and vou cannot carry it. Christ lifted a what does it amount to? hand on the ground and the other hand on 3« heaven will break down with emotion aud mountuu tor vou and you cannot lift an Lat at evening Clarance came in "My mind is made up, my dear "I am hoping for something better, the cross, rises, looking into the ce of gratitude in one great sob, and then in one 1? JP^ ounce for Hun. sight of home. Contrary to Mrs. Wilson's Belle," Stella responded. and think I've found it now." !Man, His mother, for s} mpathy, but they great hosanna. Will vou and I have anv *%&scars Tuere is someone whose cross it will be to conjecture, he came by a differ-, She took up the view, slipping a lette He rocked Freddy to sleep, put him tell her to stand back, it is no place foi a to show? piesent religion in the home circle- Would woman—"stand back and stop this crying." ent route. He had thought to telegraph, into its envelope as she spoke. into his crib, then went to the door of There will be Ignatius, on that day showing voudaie to kneel down and pray it your Christ moves on with His burden upon His but "Stella won't worry," he the mark of the paw i,nd teetli ot the "If I favored his suit I was to keep his wife's room. brother and sister vveie looking at you? shoulders, and there is a boy that passes lion that '•trucK him down in the coliseum. said, "if I am late." The light faded Could you ask a blessiugvat the tea table? ifc.sisterBelle," she continued,touching "Are you going to kiss me good-bye, along with Him, a boy holding a mallet and There will be glorious John Huss slnwin^ Could you take the Bible, and gather your from his eyes and his face turned •the edge of the wrapper to her rosy Stella?" he asked. I may be gone a a few nails. I wonder what they are for. just where on nis loat the flame« began on lankily around you and read of, Christ "and ghastly white when he looked into the Christ moyes on until the burden is so great lips, and. sealing it with a heavy slap day or two. that day when his soul took wing of flame ip~" heaven and your immoital soul? Could you He staggers and falls flat into the du»t and rooms. •of the hand. I do not, you see. I "No," she replied coldly "you'll be and soared up fiom Constance. There* will then kneel and pray for a blessing on our faints dead away, and a ruthan puts His toot "Both gone?" he groaned, walking be Hugh McKail ready to point to the mark household? "Oa," vou say, "not exactly that. won't be sorry," murmured she, turnin back soon enough." on Him and shakes Him as he would a dead on his neck where the ax struck him. There I couldn't quite do that, (.cause I have a from the bed to the couch. the envelope to look at its superscription. "But I might never return, you dog, while another ruffian looks down at will be .McMillan and Campbtll and Jbree- ^i*" veiy quick temper, and if I piofessed religion "No, no, Mrs Wilson said'ebmfortingly. know." Him, wondering whether He has fainted man, the American missionaries, who. wifti and tried to ilk religion in my household "Baby's better, and your wife away or whether He is only pietendingto "Your happiness is within your own "See if you are not back in a day their wives and children, were put to'death Hfc/ and after that I should lose mv temper, faint away, and with jeer and contempt indiscribable will come out of this. All she needs writh in the awful massacre at Oawnj-ore, showin°- p*ft^ grasp, Stella. You'll recall my words or two the same old story." they would scoff at me and siy: ''You are says: ''Fainted, have you? Fainted %.\"x the place where the daggers of the Se^oyt is good nursing, and at sh will a pretty Christian So jou are .eowea some day," and with a stately gait Clarence turned quickly and left Get up, get on!" struck them. There will be the Waldenses, ***Vshowing have," turning aside ber head and down and their sarcasm keeps vou out of Belle Lawson left her. her. She heard him cross the room, Now they have arrived at the foot of the where their limbs were bioken on ft*the heaven and away fioni Christ, when under drying her eyes with the corner of her Siella ran lightly up the stairs to and knew he bent over Freddy's crib hill. Off with His clothes. Sbail that loathsome day when the Piedmont soldiery pitched God you ought to take awav your vvnole apron. mob look upon the unrobed body of her own room and touched the bell in and kissed the little sleeper again them over the rocks. Will you and I have family into the kinsdom. Christ lifted a Christ? Yes. The commanding officers say: any wounds to show? Have'we fought any great haste. and again. W at could we do if such as she mountain, lifted a whole world for you you "Unfasten the girdle, take off tne coat, strip ittles for Christ? Oh, that we might all be can not lilt an ounce for Lim. I see how it "You will oblige me by mailing this "He'll come back before he's really were not stationed all along the walks Him." 'Ihe work is done. Bring back the enlightened lor Christ, that we might all be --„, is you want to be favorable to religion, -at once," she -mid to the servant who gone," whispered she to herself, going in life? coat, for here are the gamb.ers tossmg up willing to suffer ior Christ, tnat we might all 3 vou want to support Christian institutions, answered her call, handing him this toward the door, but a turn in the com on the ground, saving: "Who It was painful to listen to the wild hear a cross tor Christ. ^M, you like to be assuciated with those who love bhallhave the coat?" One rumau says: "I very envelope, "and," she said, smiling street hid him from sight. He ad talk. "If I might endure it," Clarence When the Scottish chieftains wanted to the Lord Jesus Christ but as to taking a positive have it, I have it—it is mine!" He rolls it a blushing, "be careful of this," raise an army, they would make a wooden £w St gone, without bidding her good-bye. said so many times. When at last st3p on this subject jou can not—vou up and puta it under his arm, or he examines Eeave cross, and then set it on fire, smJ carry it ^ft cannot, and my text, like a gate of a hundred atting another letter into his hand, "Well, we've been married long Stella awoke from the horrible dreams it to see what kind of fabric it is made of. with other crosses they had through the I*^* bolts, bars you away from peace on it with no one but the person her husband was bending over her. enough to be done with such nonsense," Then they put the cross upon the ground, ^m-tW mountains, through the highlands, and earth and gloiyiu heaven. to whom it is addressed." and they stretch Christ upen it, and tour or she said, by way of consolation, yet "Clarence," she said very softly at among the people and as they waved fha 1 There are hundreds of men and women five men hold Him down wnile they drive "There'll be no mistake, miss." cross the people would gather to the standard there was a terrible pain in her heart. first "Clarence," she repeated, putting here, brave enough other things "m lite, the spikes home: at eveiy thump a groan, a and fight for Scotland. So tc-day, I who simply for the lackj of manliness st iy And at niht a perfumed note lay She sat still till Freddy awoke, then her arms around his neck, "if groan! Alas, alas! the hour as es on and tne come out with the cross of the Son of God. away fiom God. 1 hey dare not say: "Forever on Clarence Henshaw's pillow, and he, with a cry of anguish she ran across you'll forgive me for striking Freddy time comes when they must crucify Him. It is a flaming cross—flaming with suffering* and forever, Lord Jesu«, I take Thee. foolish fellow, was transported to the the hall to the nearest neighbor with— I'll kiss you O so many times!" Christ has only one garment left now, a flaming with triumph, flaming with glory. I Thou hast ledeemed me by Thy blood, here cap, a cap of thorns. No danger that it will -upper heaven of delight. "Please come, Mrs. Wilson. My Foolish fellow! he cried like a baby. carry it out among all the people. Who wilx is my immortal spirit. Listen, all my fiiends. fall off, lor tne sharp edges have punctured be on the Lord's side? Who will gather to Three months later they were martied. baby is dying." "Listen, Stella," he said, as soon LLten. all the world." They are lurking the temples ana it is sure and last One ruffian the standard of Emmanuel? A cross, a cross aiound about the kingdom of God—they are They were a happy and hopeful Mrs. Wilson came, for though rough as he could command his voice takes hold of one end of the short beam a cross! •«Whosoever doth not bear his cross' lurking aiound about it, expeaing tj crawl couple. This life upon which they had in manners she was kind in heart. "Listen! I did get the situation and of the cross, and another ruffian takes hold and come after Me, can not, can not be Mv in some time when nobody is look.nj, lorgettul entered was like a new and unexplored of the other end of .the saoit beam of "He is in a fit," she said, the moment you can have everything at you d'sciple." 5a8- of the tremendous words of my text: the cross, and another ruffian put his arms country, but Clarence meant to she saw the child. "Bring me want," touching his lips to cheek and "Wuosoever doth not bear Hi* cross and around the waist of Christ, and another ruffian iM Mountains Ar Made. work hard and felt little or no doubt coni9 after Me cannot be My disciple some water and help get off hi3 forehead, "an you are going to have takes hold of the end ot the long Deani An officer ot a neighboring church told me TM. Faye, the astronomer, has drawn in regard to their future. He had been clothes." *~7 YJZ such a pretty house in Brooklyn." of the cio s, and all together they move on that he was in a store in New York—just a head bookkeeper for many years the attention of the lYench Academy "***^*-%T* Stella obeyed. "All I want is your love," clasping until they come to the hole digged in the happened in—where there were many clerk", a had the promise of something betite eartn, and with awful plunge it jars down of Sciences to the apparent geological "Hold him so, till I run home and him close, "and at Freddy get well. and a gentleman came in and said to a young yet the coming season. They rented with its burden of woe. It is not the picture law that the cooling of the terrestrial get some medicine," she said, putting I'm ready to be a poor man's wife!" man standing behind the counter: ''Are you of a Cnrist, is not the statue of Christ, as a house in the pleasant part of the the young man that arose the other night crust goes on more rapidly under the him in the bath. "Such women as you you sometimes see in a cathedral but it is &Zw,-,,-——^^—. -"77jZ- city, kept a servant and Stella wore the BrooKlyn tabernacle and asked for prajrer«.?" ain't fit to be mothers," shecontinued, sea than on the land surface. Fro %J* the body of a bleeding, living, dying Christ. Without any flusliot cheek he replied: he handsome clothes which had been They sometimes say He had «iive wouads, leturuing with her hands full of bottles. this he argues that the crust must 'tlam. Ihavn't always done right, and I provided at the time of her marriage. O a to but they have counted wrong. Two wounds have been quite bad but since I arose for thicken under oceans at a more rapid towards the end of the first year for the hands, two wounds for the feet, one prayers I thmk I am better than I was." It I have so a trials to bear," "Fresh acquisitions for the seraglio rate, so as to give rise to a swelling up •wound for the side, they say, five wounds. ,of their wedded life his firm was said Was only his way of announcing that he had moaned Stella.» of the shah of Persia arrive frequently, No they have missed the worst and they and distortion of the thinner portions ito be under heavy liabilities, and the started ior the higher life. God will not "Nonsense," replied Mrs. Wilson. have missed the most. Did you ever see the at times in batches," says a writer in of the crust in other words, to the anniversary of their marriage found cast out a man who is brave enoagh to take bramble out of which that crown of thorns "You have a pretty home if it,was the St. James's Gazette. "The mode a step ahead like that. formation of mountain chains. he house bankrupt and Clarence out was made? I saw one on a Brooklyn ferryboat, put in order." K&?rm*m of getting rid of those who have ceased I tell you these things this morning hecause, .of a situation. Thev moved out of in the hands of a gentleman who had I am used to a S S my dear friends, I want to show you to please is simple and yet ingenious. Tire JUargcat l^ens. V? vtieir tiouftt) and took a cheaper place just returned from Palestine, a bramr/le just how light the cross is that we have to carry "Young people can't begin where old There is no sewing up in sacks, no like that out of which the crown of thorns A $15,000 lighthouse lens made in An another part of the city. By this compared with that which Christ carried ones left off. They must make their was made. O how cruel and how stubborn casting from towers, no bowstiing, •time their funds began to run low, and Paris for the United States Government for us You have not had the flesh torn eff were the thorns! And when that cap of own homes." Stella wanted something new for her no poisoning. Some provincial general for Christ's sake in carrying ycur eros*. He is in Washington. D. C. I thorns was put upon Christ it was pi esse "I never understood it so. My sister fainted dead away under His cross. You is informed at he will be favored avardrobe. ^ft- down on Him, not five wounds but ten, is the largest lantern lens in the country. have not cai rled the cross until it fetched advised me never to marry a poor with a wife fiom the royal harem. twenty, thirtv—I can not count them. "J shall find something by-and-by," glass work, or lens proper the blood. Under HK there was a pool of man. There vt ere three or four absences that refuse is impossible the disguised he husband said bravely. carnage that splashed the hordes' fetlock*.. measures 15 feet in height, while the "And so you keep finding fault and made that scene worse. First there was tae lady arrives, and is placed at the head You have li icn Is to sympathize with you It was at this trying time at a lifc»tle internal diameter is a feet, 8 inches. absence of water. The climate was hot complaining \Uien your husband is in earning the cross Christ trod the winepress of her new husband's household. She speck of humanity was put into the fever, the inflamation, the nervous prostration, trying in everyway to make an honest of God's wrath alone, alone! The usually insists on his immediately Stella's arms, and its feeble cry told the gangrene had seized upon Him, cio-s that vou and I ousrht to carry represents living. It is a wonder you haven't QnJUe A BO Iter Ttoing. divorcing his other wives, and in any and He teiribly wanted-water. His wrounds at the responsibility of motherwas only a tew days or a few year* of trial. driven him to drink long ago." were worse than gunshot fractures, and yet a schoolmaster—-'"Fie, for here. case treats them as inferiors. One of The cross that Christ cirried for us had compressed no water. A Turit in the thirteenth century "But my husband is a good man, into it the agonies of eternity. shame, Yorg, to forget to bring your "I' the happiest man alive," Clarence my Persian friends was Gen. was crucified on tae banks of a river so that replied Stella, warmly, resenting the There has someone come here to-day pocket-handkerchief go down one'" exclaimed, caressing wife and the sight ot the water hiight tantalize him. Khan. became the recipient of one whom you have rot ob'.erv ed. He did not last part of the speech. jAndOhowthe thust of Christ must have Yorg— *$ brougnt a sausage oMed in baby boy, "Let pride go to the dogs, of these royal favors. She led him a come through the front door He did not "He has shown himself to be a good ^ntalized as He thought of the Euphrates 1 it for yon, Herr Schoolmaster.' S Stella," he added, remembering now come down any cf tiue aisles jet 1 know sad lite, and he never alluded to her a .and the Jordan ana the Amazon and all the He i* here. He is tnim the east, the far &hat his responsibility was greater a another thing go but (in a whisper) as 'the old camel.'" Mountains oi earth and heaven poured out of The woman said it. in.good., faith. east. He comes with blistered toot, and ^Qermem, Joke. •. 4 4